First Black Eye and First Haircut!!

Luke had a week of firsts this past week. After tripping on a shoe by our back door, Luke fell into a wooden shelf and got quite the shiner on his eye. He's tough though and actually only cried for about 2 minutes. After Dad had been begging Mom to get Luke a haircut for about two months (no hockey mullets in this family!) Luke finally got his first haircut. He sat perfectly still for the haircut which lasted approximately 4 minutes.

It's been awhile since we've posted on the blog, so here goes. Luke made his first ever trip to a toy store today. Luke's Grandma's tend to do all the toy buying that is necessary, so Luke had never been. We returned a duplicate gift from Christmas and Luke got several toys including a baseball bat that he was very excited about as you can see from the picture. In another new development, Luke has started to feed himself with utensils!!

Christmas Pics (Finally!)

We had an awesome 2nd Christmas with Luke! As you can see it was hard to choose which pictures to add so I just put up a bunch. Highlights of our holiday include-
*Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with the Pedersen's and Great Grandpa Les
*Christmas Day with the Bolmgren side (Matt's Mom's Family)
*Sledding with Auntie Abby
*LOTS of new toys to play with. So many that we turned our loft into a toy room. Some of the favorites are a new easel, rocking horse, sled, basketball hoop and chair. We did major cleaning and organizing to make room for all of the new toys. Thanks to Grandma Pedersen for helping clean, Grandpa Pedersen for installing new shelves in our pantry and Grandma and Grandpa Thomas for watching Luke while all this was happening.
*Spending lots of time with friends and family!

Opening presents with Daddy

Snuggling with Great Grandpa Les

Snow! I like it now!

Faster Auntie Abby!

New chair

Luke's new sled and buddy named Bobby!

Shooting hoops with Auntie Abby

Opening presents at the Thomas'

I love Christmas!

Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays!

We hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. We should mention that last Sunday (Dec. 7) was the one year anniversary of Luke's heart surgery! It kind of passed us by without us even acknowledging it! We are so lucky to have such great doctors in Minnesota who have helped Luke to become a happy, healthy little boy.

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a busy, but great Thanksgiving weekend. Thursday we spent the day at Grandma and Grandpa Thomas' house. Friday we spent the day at Grandma and Grandpa Pedersen's house. We ate way too much, as usual, but had so much fun. We have so much to be thankful for this year. We have the BEST families that love us and help us in so many ways. We have great friends, many who have been friends since childhood. Most of all...we are thankful for this little guy.

Getting ready to head outside and play in the snow for the first time.

Not so sure about the snow...

This face tells it all. Winter sucks doesn't it Luke?

Fun Night at Home In Front of the Camera

Brushing our teeth is one of our favorite things. Uncle Gary will be so proud!

Who's there?

Beep Beep!

We love basketball

We had some chocolate pudding!